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Uruguay rearranges its radio spectrum to prepare it for digital TV

The Uruguayan Executive is preparing to regulate the future of digital terrestrial television, in a calendar that will go until 2015 and will allow more signals to be assigned.

The Uruguayan government has published a decree that limits the number of signals available to Cablevisión (owned by Grupo Clarín), while changing its frequencies in the spectrum.

In addition to limiting the availability of channels for that company from 15 to 10 in Montevideo and from 12 to 10 in Canelones, the Uruguayan Executive is preparing to regulate the future of digital terrestrial television, in a calendar that will go until 2015 and will allow more signals to be assigned.

In 2011, José Mujica's government had issued a decree limiting the number of signals available to Cablevisión. That decree was based on another, from 2006, which allowed Grupo Clarín to unify its 15 frequencies in Montevideo (granted to the public limited company Bersabel) with the 12 it owned for Canelones (in the company Visión Satelital), all under the commercial name of Cablevisión.

But that 2006 rule was annulled a few months ago by the Administrative Litigation Court (TCA). Therefore, it now had to issue a complementary rule that limits Cablevisión's frequencies.
The new regulations being prepared by Uruguay on digital television could reserve twenty channels for open TV. The draft of the digital TV decree establishes that of those 20 channels for open TV, 6 will be public (including National Television), 7 for “community television broadcasting services” and another “7 channels to be assigned to holders that provide commercial television broadcasting services”, the latter being channels 4, 10 and 12. It is being evaluated to grant 1 or 2 more commercial, 2 community and 1 more state-owned.

By, Mar 21, 2012, Section:FEATURED AM, Business, TDT

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